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- From: MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au (Dieter Britz)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics.fusion
- Subject: CNF bibliography update (Red Face Dept)
- Message-ID: <88C896F7C6042CAE@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:54:36 GMT
- Sender: scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller)
- Reply-To: Dieter Britz <MEDB@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Hello all,
- Well, after posting my last update, I found out I had made two mistakes.
- Firstly, the NCFI lasted 2 years, not 6 months (where did I get that idea
- from?), kindly pointed out to me by Todd Green; secondly I had the exchange
- rate for the yen all wrong. Swinbanks misled me here, writing "a few million
- yen (US$1,000-$2000)", from which I took the ratio to be 1:1000. I have now
- looked it up, and it's more like 100 (120 or so), so the figure is a few
- million $ - still not in the 100 millions bandied about by Jed, though. I
- grovel in embarrassment. Also, there is some disagreement (but not my mistake
- in this case) between the two reports about just how firm this is; Swinbanks
- reckons MITI has decided to apply for the money, Myers reckons it's
- practically in the bag, barring the unlikely, and research will start next
- year. We'll see.
- Another embarrassment is my posting about Tom's Joules. I guess I haven't
- read Tom's postings so carefully, and I ought to know that he does not know
- where his zero line is. In that case, there are some large fluctuations, many
- times the Joule error - but a fluctuation does not an excess heat event make,
- nor a Joules dip a hitherto unknown nuclear heat swallowing act. If you follow
- me.
- Dieter
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- COLD NUCLEAR FUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Addition 19-Aug-1992
- Dieter Britz alias britz@kemi.aau.dk
- Total in Section 2: 722
-
- Comment: file cnf-cmnt
- ^^^^^^^
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- Myers FS; Science 257 (1992) 474 (24-Jul).
- "Where there's heat there's yen".
- ** Another report of MITI's decision to fund some cold fusion research in
- Japan. Unlike the one in Nature (Swinbanks), this one is fairly certain that
- this will go ahead, "barring last-minute objections by the Japanese Ministry
- of Finance". MITI does not subscribe to the reality of cold fusion but is just
- being pragmatic in the face of excess heat reports. This report mentions
- figures of $1-$3 million, and a consortium of Universities and about 10
- leading Japanese utility, electronics and metallurgical companies to do the
- work, over a 5-year period.
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- Dieter Britz alias medb@cc.newcastle.edu.au, until further notice. Mailing
- address: Mech. Eng., Newcastle University, NSW 2308, Australia.
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